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Joan Didion
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"Strength is one of those things you’re supposed to have. You don’t feel that you have it at the time you’re going through it."
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Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Strength
"I’m not sure I have the physical strength to undertake a novel."
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Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Strength
"Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power."
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Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Power
"Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power."
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Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Power
"Before I’d written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when you’ve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people’s ability to do that."
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Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Movies
"To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves – there lies the great, singular power of self-respect."
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Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Great
"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"
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Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Dreams
"You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that."
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Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Change
"Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up."
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Joan Didion
Topic(s):
Business
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